Reform Activists Permitted to March in Cairo

(AP/Guardian-UK) Nadia Abou El-Magd - A few hundred reform activists marched through a Cairo neighborhood Wednesday unmolested by riot police while denouncing President Hosni Mubarak, whose security forces historically have used a heavy hand against anti-government demonstrators. The rare unmolested protest occurred two days after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Egypt and called for the Mubarak government to allow his opposition freedom of expression.


2005-06-23 00:00:00

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